WO2010050089A1 - Encoding method and encoding device for compression encoding of moving images - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a device having a moving image shooting function such as a digital camera or a camera-equipped mobile phone, and a moving image compression encoding technique when creating or using image content.
- moving picture compression coding technology such as MPEG (moving picture expert groups) that performs high-efficiency coding has been rapidly put into practical use, and is widely used in video cameras and mobile phones.
- MPEG moving picture expert groups
- an “intra-encoding mode” in which only an image within a screen of a frame to be encoded (hereinafter referred to as the target image) is used for encoding, and a frame that has already been encoded (hereinafter referred to as “encoding mode”) , An image region having a strong correlation with the target image is detected from the reference frame (hereinafter referred to as motion search), and only a difference value between the image after the motion search (hereinafter referred to as motion compensated image) and the target image is encoded.
- motion search the reference frame
- motion compensated image only a difference value between the image after the motion search
- motion compensated image a difference value between the image after the motion search
- inter-coding mode There is an “inter-coding mode”.
- DCT discrete cosine transform
- quantization processing were performed on the motion vector representing the position of the reference image in the reference frame and the difference image between the input image and the motion compensated image.
- a method of generating a stream by variable-length coding a combination with later data DCT coefficients is shown in the MPEG-4 standard.
- the inter coding mode will be described in more detail.
- 0 is input to the DCT process and the quantization process, and the result is output as 0. become. If there is no large difference even if the difference image is not 0, the result may be output as 0 by quantization. As described above, when the output result is 0, the DCT process and the quantization process are skipped without being executed, and the result is replaced with 0 to be output (see Patent Document 1). ).
- An object of the present invention is to achieve a certain speed increase in frame processing without fail, thereby achieving downsizing and power saving of the encoding processing system.
- a first encoding processing method divides a processing target frame into a plurality of blocks, and for each block, an input image and a reference image that has already been encoded are used.
- S blocks S is an integer equal to or greater than 1 out of blocks in the frame.
- the second encoding processing method divides a processing target frame into a plurality of blocks, executes DCT processing and quantization processing for each block, generates DCT coefficients, and converts the DCT coefficients into
- a step of selecting S S (S is an integer of 1 or more) blocks from the blocks in the frame, and for the selected S blocks
- S is an integer of 1 or more
- the third encoding processing method divides a processing target frame into a plurality of blocks, and performs motion search for each block from an input image and a reference image that has already been encoded.
- a coding processing method for generating a vector and performing a moving picture coding process using the motion vector a first step of detecting a moving amount of an image and storing it in a moving amount storage unit, and the moving amount storage unit
- a third step of forcibly replacing the motion vector with 0 and performing a moving image encoding process and performing the third step of a certain frame and simultaneously performing the process of the third step of the next frame Used in The amount of movement is characterized by obtaining in the first and second step that.
- the fourth encoding processing method divides a processing target frame into a plurality of blocks, performs DCT processing and quantization processing for each block, generates DCT coefficients, and converts the DCT coefficients into
- the first step of detecting the moving amount of the image and storing it in the moving amount storage unit is compared with the moving amount in the moving amount storage unit
- the second step of selecting S S (S is an integer greater than or equal to 1) blocks from the least moving amount, and the DCT processing and the quantization processing are not performed on the selected S blocks.
- a third step of forcibly replacing the DCT coefficient with 0 and performing a moving image encoding process, and performing the third step of a certain frame and simultaneously using the movement of the third step of the next frame Before quantity It is characterized by determining at the first and second step.
- the first encoding processing apparatus divides a processing target frame into a plurality of blocks, performs a motion search from an input image and a reference image that has already been encoded for each block, and performs motion search.
- the input image to be encoded is reduced to 1 / n (n is an integer of 1 or more).
- An input image reduction unit that generates an image, a reference image reduction unit that generates an image reduced to 1 / n with respect to a reference image that has already been encoded, the input image reduction unit, and the reference image reduction unit
- a movement amount detection unit that inputs a reduced input image and a reference image and detects a movement amount for each block, a movement amount storage unit that stores the movement amount detected by the movement amount detection unit, and the movement amount storage unit Movements remembered in
- the stop block selection unit that selects S blocks (S is an integer equal to or greater than 1) from the least moving amount, and the motion search is performed on the selected S blocks.
- a moving picture coding unit that forcibly replaces the motion vector with 0 and executes a moving picture coding process.
- the second encoding processing apparatus divides a processing target frame into a plurality of blocks, performs DCT processing and quantization processing for each block, generates DCT coefficients, and converts the DCT coefficients into An input image reduction unit that generates an image reduced to 1 / n (n is an integer equal to or greater than 1) with respect to an input image to be encoded; A reference image reduction unit that generates an image reduced to 1 / n with respect to a reference image that has already been encoded, and an input image and a reference image that are reduced from the input image reduction unit and the reference image reduction unit.
- the movement amount detection unit that detects the movement amount for each block, the movement amount storage unit that stores the movement amount detected by the movement amount detection unit, and the movement amount stored in the movement amount storage unit are compared.
- Stop block selection unit that selects blocks (S is an integer equal to or greater than 1), and for the selected S blocks, the DCT coefficient and the quantization process are not executed, and the DCT coefficient is forced And a moving image encoding unit that executes a moving image encoding process by replacing it with 0.
- Embodiment 1 is a configuration block diagram of an encoding processing apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. It is a block diagram which shows the detailed structure of the stop block detection part in FIG. It is a figure which shows the 1st correspondence of the input image and reduced image in the encoding processing apparatus of FIG. It is a figure which shows the 2nd correspondence of the input image and reduced image in the encoding processing apparatus of FIG. It is a flowchart figure which shows operation
- Embodiment 1 of the present invention although the situation shown in FIG. 7 can be avoided by sequentially switching between a frame for which the number of corresponding block settings is set to 0 and a frame for which it is set to non-zero, the generated code amount It is a figure which shows that it becomes a result which fluctuates greatly.
- FIG. 9 is a diagram showing that stable bit rate control can be realized as compared with the situation of FIG. 8 by the second embodiment of the present invention for correcting the estimated code amount.
- FIG. 10 is a time chart showing that the stop block detection process and the moving picture encoding process are sequentially executed according to the first embodiment of the present invention, although the processing time is shortened as compared with the prior art.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of an imaging system using an encoding processing apparatus according to the present invention.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an encoding processing apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.
- the encoding processing device 300 includes an input image reduction unit 110, a reference image reduction unit 111, a stop block detection unit 100, a moving image encoding unit 200, and a reference frame storage unit 213.
- the input image reduction unit 110 inputs an input image to be encoded, reduces the frame image to 1 / n (n is an integer of 1 or more), and outputs the frame image to the stop block detection unit 100.
- the reference image reduction unit 111 also inputs a reference frame from the reference frame storage unit 213 in which a frame (reference frame) for which encoding processing has already been completed is stored, reduces the frame image to 1 / n, and stops. It outputs to the block detection part 100.
- the blocks in the frame are sorted in ascending order of the movement amount, and are designated by the “number of corresponding block settings” input from the outside of the encoding processing apparatus 300 from the one with the smaller movement amount. Set the number of blocks as “stop blocks”.
- the motion search process, the DCT process and the quantization process can be skipped, and the process can be speeded up.
- FIG. 2 shows a detailed configuration of the stop block detector 100 in FIG. According to FIG. 2, the stop block detection unit 100 includes a movement amount detection unit 101, a movement amount storage unit 102, and a stop block selection unit 103.
- the movement amount detection of the image performed by the stop block detection unit 100 will be described with reference to FIG.
- the input image is reduced to 1 / n by the input image reduction unit 110.
- the reference image is also reduced to 1 / n by the reference image reduction unit 111. This is input to the movement amount detection unit 101 in units of blocks of p ⁇ p (p is an integer of 1 or more) pixels.
- Movement amount ⁇
- the above movement amount is calculated for each p ⁇ p pixel, and the result is stored in the movement amount storage unit 102.
- movement amount information for one frame is stored in the movement amount storage unit 102.
- the movement amounts are sorted in ascending order, and the sorted movement amounts are sent to the stop block selection unit 103 in ascending order.
- the stop block selection unit 103 uses the movement amount information sent from the movement amount storage unit 102 and the corresponding block setting number input from the outside, and selects which block (mx ⁇ m pixel) corresponds to the stop block.
- the determination of the stop block it is necessary to convert information calculated in units of p ⁇ p pixels with respect to an image obtained by reducing the frame by 1 / n into units of m ⁇ m pixels with respect to the same-size image of the frame. .
- one block to be processed using the reduced image may be converted into an area of n ⁇ n blocks of the same size image.
- the stop block determination is performed with the same number of blocks as that of the input image even in the reduced image, the determination can be performed in the minimum block unit.
- the memory capacity of the movement amount storage unit 102 that needs to store the movement amount information of all the blocks in the reduced image is reduced. can do.
- the stop block selection unit 103 determines which block of the input image corresponds to one block of the reduced image output from the movement amount storage unit 102 using the relationship of p, m, and n described above, and stops the stop block. Control is performed so that the number of blocks of the input image corresponding to is at least equal to the number of blocks set. A specific processing flow will be described with reference to FIG.
- Moving blocks all blocks in one frame of the input image are set as “moving blocks”.
- This moving block indicates that it is not a stop block, and in the block corresponding to the moving block, motion search, DCT processing, and quantization processing, which are normal encoding processes, are executed (S100).
- the movement amount information stored in the movement amount storage unit 102 is acquired one by one from the one with the smaller movement amount (S101). Based on the information, it is determined which input image block corresponds to the relationship of p, m, and n shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 (S102). A stop block is set (S103). For the block set as the stop block, motion search, DCT processing, and quantization processing are skipped in the subsequent encoding processing.
- the total number of stopped blocks set in S103 is counted, and it is checked whether the value exceeds the number of corresponding blocks set (S104).
- the stop block determination process is terminated. If not, the process returns to S101 and a stop block is added.
- the movement amount storage unit 102 has been described to store movement amount information of all blocks in one frame, but is necessary when the stop block selection unit 103 selects a stop block. Only information may be stored.
- the stop block selection unit 103 reads the movement amount information of two blocks from the movement amount storage unit 102 according to the number of corresponding block settings, only the movement amount information for two blocks is stored in the movement amount storage unit 102. Can be stored. For example, a total of four blocks of movement amounts are written in the movement amount storage unit 102 in the order of “100”, “10”, “20”, “5” from the movement amount detection unit 101, and information “5” of two blocks among them is written. , “10” is transferred to the stop block selection unit 103, the movement amount storage unit 102 only needs to store information of two blocks having “5” and “10” as movement amounts.
- an input image is first input to the motion search unit 201.
- a frame image (reference image) that has already been processed is also input there, and a motion search process is executed using the input image and the reference image.
- the motion search result is passed to the motion compensated image generation unit 202, and a motion compensated image is generated from the reference image.
- a difference image between the input image and the motion compensated image is generated using the subtracter 203 and passed to the selector 204.
- the selector 204 selects an input image at the time of intra coding, and selects a difference image output from the subtracter 203 at the time of inter coding. In this example, a difference image is selected by the selector 204 to indicate inter coding.
- the difference image is input to the DCT processing unit 205 and subjected to DCT processing, and then the quantization processing is performed to the quantization unit 206 to generate DCT coefficients.
- the DCT coefficient is passed to the variable length coding unit 209 and variable length coding is executed.
- the motion vector information is also passed from the motion search unit 201 to the variable length encoding unit 209, and the motion vector information is also encoded.
- the variable length coding unit 209 generates variable length coding information including both motion vector information and DCT coefficients.
- the variable length coding information generated by the variable length coding unit 209 is output to the outside as a generated stream.
- the DCT coefficient generated by the quantization processing unit 206 is also passed to the inverse quantization processing unit 207 and subjected to the inverse quantization process, and then passed to the inverse DCT processing unit 208 to perform the inverse DCT process.
- the adder 212 adds the resultant data and the motion compensated image supplied from the motion compensated image generation unit 202 via the switch 211 to generate a reference image, and stores the reference image in the reference frame storage unit 213. .
- the processing in the block determined to be a stop block with respect to the above normal inter coding processing will be described below.
- the inter coding process is executed in units of blocks, and whether the block to be executed is a moving block or a stop block is notified to the moving image encoding unit 200 as stop block information in units of blocks.
- the motion search process performed by the motion search unit 201 is not executed, and the execution result (motion vector) is set to 0 and output to the motion compensated image generation unit 202 and the variable length encoding unit 209. .
- the DCT processing performed by the DCT processing unit 205 and the quantization processing performed by the quantization processing unit 206 are not performed, and the quantization processing result (DCT coefficient) is set to 0, and the variable length coding unit 209 and the inverse quantization unit It outputs to 207.
- the inverse quantization unit 207 nor the inverse DCT processing unit 208 performs the process, and the inverse DCT processing unit 208 outputs 0 to the adder 212.
- the execution of motion search processing, DCT processing, quantization processing, inverse quantization processing, and inverse DCT processing can be skipped.
- square blocks such as px ⁇ p or m ⁇ m are used, but rectangular blocks such as px ⁇ py and mx ⁇ my (px, py, mx, my are integers of 1 or more) may be used.
- n representing a reduction ratio
- both the motion vector and the DCT coefficient are set to 0. However, only one (the motion vector only is 0 or the DCT coefficient is only 0). As a matter of course, it is possible to achieve sufficiently high speed even by a method in which only the motion search process is not executed, or the DCT process, the quantization process, the inverse quantization process, and the inverse DCT process are not executed.
- Embodiment 2 >> In the second embodiment, an implementation content that is a further development of the content explained in the first embodiment will be described.
- a certain number of stop blocks are created for each frame to achieve a certain high speed and low power consumption.
- motion vector 0
- difference image 0
- the same image as the previous frame is always displayed over several frames. It will continue to output.
- the image is stopped without moving even one pixel, but the amount of movement calculated by Equation 1 is smaller than the other blocks even though the image is moving several pixels at a time.
- a stop block is designated, the fact that an image is updated only once every few frames (not designated as a moving block) means that it may lead to degradation of image quality as a moving image.
- implementation contents for solving this problem will be described.
- the corresponding block setting number that defines the number of blocks to be a stop block in each frame is input to the stop block detection unit 100.
- the above problem is solved by switching the value of the number of corresponding block settings for each frame.
- the number of corresponding block settings is set to non-zero so as to obtain a speed-up effect.
- the corresponding block setting number is set to 0, and all blocks are encoded as moving blocks.
- the corresponding block setting number is set to non-zero, and the speed-up effect is obtained as in the q frame.
- the example of providing a frame that sets the corresponding block setting number to 0 once every two frames has been described as an example.
- the corresponding block setting number is set to 0 once every r frames (r is an integer of 2 or more).
- r is an integer of 2 or more.
- other frames can be non-zero.
- the code amount of the frame greatly increases and decreases as shown in FIG.
- the code amount increases when the corresponding block setting number is 0, and the code amount decreases when it is non-zero.
- the code amount of the previous frame and the quantization parameter of the previous frame are used for bit rate control, the following problem occurs.
- the code amount is controlled to increase in the next frame.
- the code amount is large in the previous frame, control is performed so that the code amount is decreased in the next frame.
- the increase / decrease is repeated as shown in FIG. 8, stable bit rate control cannot be performed. In other words, even if the same quantization parameter is set, there are frames with a large code amount and frames with a small amount of code, making it difficult to control the bit rate.
- Embodiment 3 Also in the third embodiment, the contents of further development of the contents described in the first embodiment will be described.
- the stop block detection unit 100 sets the position of the stop block in the encoded frame and the next moving image encoding unit 200 performs encoding
- the block set as the stop block explained that a part of the encoding process is skipped.
- FIG. 1 is used to show an example in which a stop block detection unit 100 that sets stop blocks and a moving image encoding unit 200 that executes encoding processing are configured by different means. It was.
- the setting of the stop block and the coding processing are executed by the same means, that is, the moving picture coding unit 200b, and s is set.
- the stop block of the s + 1 frame is set in the motion search process executed by the motion search unit 201 when performing the encoding process of the s frame (see FIG. 12). .
- An input image and a reference image are input to the motion search unit 201b in FIG. 12, and a motion search is executed. At that time, the movement amount shown in Equation 1 is also calculated at the same time, and the result is stored in the movement amount storage unit 102b.
- the processing for one frame movement amount detection processing
- the movement amount information stored in the movement amount storage unit 102b is sorted in ascending order of movement amount, and is output to the stop block selection unit 103b in ascending order.
- the stop block selection unit 103b sets stop blocks corresponding to the number of corresponding block settings, and outputs the stop block information to the moving image encoding unit 200b.
- the stop block information set by the stop block selection unit 103b is used as stop block position information when processing the next frame. That is, by executing the stop block detection process and the moving picture encoding process in parallel, the process can be completed at a higher speed (see FIG. 13).
- the encoding processing apparatuses 300 and 300b according to Embodiments 1 to 3 of the present invention have been described above. Next, application examples of these encoding processing apparatuses 300 and 300b will be described.
- FIG. 14 is a configuration block diagram of an imaging system 601 using the encoding processing apparatus according to the present invention, for example, a digital still camera (DSC).
- a signal processing device 606 in FIG. 14 is one of the encoding processing devices 300 and 300b according to the first to third embodiments of the present invention.
- the image light incident through the optical system 602 forms an image on the sensor 603.
- the sensor 603 is driven by the timing control circuit 609 to accumulate the imaged image light and photoelectrically convert it into an electrical signal.
- An electrical signal read from the sensor 603 is converted into a digital signal by an analog / digital converter (ADC) 604 and then input to an image processing circuit 605 including the signal processing device 606.
- the image processing circuit 605 performs image processing such as Y / C processing, edge processing, image enlargement / reduction processing, and image compression / expansion processing using the present invention.
- the image-processed signal is recorded or transferred to a medium in a recording / transfer circuit 607.
- the recorded or transferred signal is reproduced by the reproduction circuit 608.
- the entire imaging system 601 is controlled by a system control circuit 610.
- the image processing in the signal processing device 606 according to the present invention is not necessarily applied only to a signal based on the image light imaged on the sensor 603 via the optical system 602, and is input as an electrical signal from an external device, for example. Needless to say, the present invention can also be applied to processing an image signal to be processed.
- the encoding processing method and the encoding processing apparatus can complete the encoding processing at high speed, the encoding processing method and the encoding processing apparatus are useful for high-spec imaging systems and the like having a high frame rate and high resolution. It is.
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図1は、本発明の実施の形態1に係る符号化処理装置の構成を示すブロック図である。図1のように、符号化処理装置300は、入力画像縮小部110、参照画像縮小部111、停止ブロック検出部100、動画像符号化部200、参照フレーム記憶部213から構成されている。
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an encoding processing apparatus according to
入力画像縮小部110は、符号化対象となる入力画像を入力し、n分の1倍(nは1以上の整数)にフレーム画像を縮小し、停止ブロック検出部100に出力する。同じく参照画像縮小部111も、既に符号化処理が完了したフレーム(参照フレーム)が格納されている参照フレーム記憶部213から参照フレームを入力し、n分の1倍にフレーム画像を縮小し、停止ブロック検出部100に出力する。停止ブロック検出部100では、入力画像縮小部110から入力した入力画像と、参照画像縮小部111から入力した参照画像とを用いてm×m画素(mは1以上の整数)で構成されるブロック単位で画像の移動量を検出する。この移動量検出については後ほど説明する。 <Function of each element>
The input
図2は、図1中の停止ブロック検出部100の詳細構成を示す。図2によれば、停止ブロック検出部100は、移動量検出部101と、移動量記憶部102と、停止ブロック選択部103とから構成される。 <Stop block detection>
FIG. 2 shows a detailed configuration of the
移動量=ΣΣ|入力画像(i,j)-参照画像(i,j)| …(1)
で表される画素単位の差分の総和を計算する。ここに、i及びjは各々1からpまでの整数である。 In the movement
Movement amount = ΣΣ | input image (i, j) −reference image (i, j) | (1)
The sum of differences in pixel units expressed by Here, i and j are each an integer from 1 to p.
停止ブロック選択部103から出力される停止ブロック情報と、符号化の対象画像となる入力画像とを受けて実行する動画像符号化処理を、図6を用いて説明する。なお、本発明はインター符号化処理において効果を発揮するものであるため、主にインター符号化の例を説明することにする。 <Processing of blocks corresponding to stop blocks>
A moving image encoding process executed in response to stop block information output from the stop
実施の形態2においては、実施の形態1で説明した内容を、更に発展させた実施内容を説明する。 <<
In the second embodiment, an implementation content that is a further development of the content explained in the first embodiment will be described.
実施の形態3においても、実施の形態1で説明した内容を、更に発展させた実施内容を説明する。 <<
Also in the third embodiment, the contents of further development of the contents described in the first embodiment will be described.
101 移動量検出部
102,102b 移動量記憶部
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206 量子化処理部
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- 処理対象フレームを複数のブロックに分割して、そのブロック毎に、入力画像と既に符号化処理済みの参照画像とから動き探索を実行して動きベクトルを生成し、その動きベクトルを使用して動画像符号化処理を行う符号化処理方法であって、
フレーム内のブロックの中からS個(Sは1以上の整数)のブロックを選択するステップと、
前記選択したS個のブロックに対しては、前記動き探索を実行せず、動きベクトルを強制的に0に置き換えて動画像符号化処理を行うステップとを備えたことを特徴とする符号化処理方法。 A processing target frame is divided into a plurality of blocks, a motion vector is generated for each block from an input image and a reference image that has already been encoded, and a motion vector is generated using the motion vector. An encoding processing method for performing image encoding processing,
Selecting S (S is an integer greater than or equal to 1) blocks from among the blocks in the frame;
A coding process comprising: performing the moving picture coding process on the selected S blocks without executing the motion search and forcibly replacing the motion vector with 0. Method. - 処理対象フレームを複数のブロックに分割して、そのブロック毎に、DCT処理及び量子化処理を実行してDCT係数を生成し、そのDCT係数を使用して動画像符号化処理を行う符号化処理方法であって、
フレーム内のブロックの中からS個(Sは1以上の整数)のブロックを選択するステップと、
前記選択したS個のブロックに対しては、前記DCT処理及び前記量子化処理を実行せず、DCT係数を強制的に0に置き換えて動画像符号化処理を行うステップとを備えたことを特徴とする符号化処理方法。 An encoding process in which a processing target frame is divided into a plurality of blocks, a DCT process and a quantization process are performed for each block to generate a DCT coefficient, and a moving picture encoding process is performed using the DCT coefficient A method,
Selecting S (S is an integer greater than or equal to 1) blocks from among the blocks in the frame;
For the selected S blocks, the DCT processing and the quantization processing are not executed, and a DCT coefficient is forcibly replaced with 0 and a moving image encoding processing is performed. An encoding processing method. - 請求項1又は2に記載の符号化処理方法において、
前記フレーム内の全部又は一部のブロックに対し、画像の移動量を検出するステップを更に備え、
前記全部又は一部のブロックの移動量を比較し、移動量の少ない方からS個のブロックを選択することを特徴とする符号化処理方法。 The encoding processing method according to claim 1 or 2,
Detecting a moving amount of the image for all or a part of the blocks in the frame;
A coding processing method characterized by comparing movement amounts of all or some of the blocks, and selecting S blocks from the smaller movement amount. - 請求項3記載の符号化処理方法において、
フレーム画像をn分の1(nは2以上の整数)に縮小するステップを更に備え、
その縮小画像を用いて、前記画像の移動量の検出を行うことを特徴とする符号化処理方法。 The encoding processing method according to claim 3, wherein
Further comprising the step of reducing the frame image to 1 / n (n is an integer of 2 or more),
An encoding processing method, wherein the amount of movement of the image is detected using the reduced image. - 請求項1又は2に記載の符号化処理方法において、
rフレーム(rは2以上の整数)にr-1回のみ、DCT係数を強制的に0に置き換えて動画像符号化処理を行うステップを実行することを特徴とする符号化処理方法。 The encoding processing method according to claim 1 or 2,
An encoding processing method, comprising: executing a moving image encoding process by forcibly replacing a DCT coefficient with 0 only r−1 times in r frames (r is an integer of 2 or more). - 請求項5記載の符号化処理方法において、
前フレームの符号量に総ブロック数/Sを掛けて符号量を補正するステップと、
前記補正した符号量を基にビットレート制御を行うステップとを更に備えたことを特徴とする符号化処理方法。 The encoding processing method according to claim 5, wherein
Multiplying the code amount of the previous frame by the total number of blocks / S to correct the code amount;
And a step of performing bit rate control based on the corrected code amount. - 処理対象フレームを複数のブロックに分割して、そのブロック毎に、入力画像と既に符号化処理済みの参照画像とから動き探索を実行して動きベクトルを生成し、その動きベクトルを使用して動画像符号化処理を行う符号化処理方法であって、
画像の移動量を検出し、移動量記憶部に記憶する第1ステップと、
前記移動量記憶部の中の移動量を比較し、移動量の少ない方からS個(Sは1以上の整数)のブロックを選択する第2ステップと、
前記選択したS個のブロックに対しては、前記動き探索を実行せず、動きベクトルを強制的に0に置き換えて動画像符号化処理を行う第3ステップとを備え、
あるフレームの前記第3ステップを実行すると同時に、次フレームの前記第3ステップの処理で使用する移動量を前記第1及び第2ステップにて求めることを特徴とする符号化処理方法。 A processing target frame is divided into a plurality of blocks, a motion vector is generated for each block from an input image and a reference image that has already been encoded, and a motion vector is generated using the motion vector. An encoding processing method for performing image encoding processing,
A first step of detecting a movement amount of the image and storing it in a movement amount storage unit;
A second step of comparing the movement amounts in the movement amount storage unit and selecting S (S is an integer of 1 or more) blocks from the smaller movement amount;
For the selected S blocks, the motion search is not performed, and a third step is performed in which a motion vector is forcibly replaced with 0 and a moving image encoding process is performed.
An encoding processing method characterized in that, at the same time as executing the third step of a certain frame, the movement amount used in the processing of the third step of the next frame is obtained in the first and second steps. - 処理対象フレームを複数のブロックに分割して、そのブロック毎に、DCT処理及び量子化処理を実行してDCT係数を生成し、そのDCT係数を使用して動画像符号化処理を行う符号化処理方法であって、
画像の移動量を検出し、移動量記憶部に記憶する第1ステップと、
前記移動量記憶部の中の移動量を比較し、移動量の少ない方からS個(Sは1以上の整数)のブロックを選択する第2ステップと、
前記選択したS個のブロックに対しては、前記DCT処理及び前記量子化処理を実行せず、DCT係数を強制的に0に置き換えて動画像符号化処理を行う第3ステップとを備え、
あるフレームの前記第3ステップを実行すると同時に、次フレームの前記第3ステップの処理で使用する移動量を前記第1及び第2ステップにて求めることを特徴とする符号化処理方法。 An encoding process in which a processing target frame is divided into a plurality of blocks, a DCT process and a quantization process are performed for each block to generate a DCT coefficient, and a moving picture encoding process is performed using the DCT coefficient A method,
A first step of detecting a movement amount of the image and storing it in a movement amount storage unit;
A second step of comparing the movement amounts in the movement amount storage unit and selecting S (S is an integer of 1 or more) blocks from the smaller movement amount;
For the selected S blocks, the DCT processing and the quantization processing are not performed, and a third step is performed in which a DCT coefficient is forcibly replaced with 0 and a moving image encoding processing is performed.
An encoding processing method characterized in that, at the same time as executing the third step of a certain frame, the movement amount used in the processing of the third step of the next frame is obtained in the first and second steps. - 請求項7又は8に記載の符号化処理方法において、
前記移動量記憶部には前記S個分の移動量情報のみを記憶でき、
前記移動量を検出した結果を記憶する際に、その移動量と前記移動量記憶部に既に記憶されている移動量とを比較して、より少ない値であれば前記移動量記憶部に更新記憶し、大きい値であれば、更新記憶しないことを特徴とする符号化処理方法。 The encoding processing method according to claim 7 or 8,
The movement amount storage unit can store only the S movement amount information,
When storing the result of detecting the movement amount, the movement amount is compared with the movement amount already stored in the movement amount storage unit, and if the value is smaller, it is updated and stored in the movement amount storage unit. An encoding processing method characterized by not updating and storing a large value. - 処理対象フレームを複数のブロックに分割して、そのブロック毎に、入力画像と既に符号化処理済みの参照画像とから動き探索を実行して動きベクトルを生成し、その動きベクトルを使用して動画像符号化処理を行う符号化処理装置であって、
符号化対象となる入力画像に対し、n分の1(nは1以上の整数)に縮小した画像を生成する入力画像縮小部と、
既に符号化処理済みの参照画像に対し、n分の1に縮小した画像を生成する参照画像縮小部と、
前記入力画像縮小部及び前記参照画像縮小部から縮小した入力画像及び参照画像を入力し、ブロック毎に移動量を検出する移動量検出部と、
前記移動量検出部にて検出した移動量を記憶する移動量記憶部と、
前記移動量記憶部に記憶されている移動量を比較し、移動量の少ない方からS個(Sは1以上の整数)のブロックを選択する停止ブロック選択部と、
前記選択されたS個のブロックに対しては、前記動き探索を実行せず、動きベクトルを強制的に0に置き換えて動画像符号化処理を実行する動画像符号化部とを備えたことを特徴とする符号化処理装置。 A processing target frame is divided into a plurality of blocks, a motion vector is generated for each block from an input image and a reference image that has already been encoded, and a motion vector is generated using the motion vector. An encoding processing device that performs image encoding processing,
An input image reduction unit that generates an image reduced to 1 / n (n is an integer of 1 or more) with respect to an input image to be encoded;
A reference image reduction unit that generates an image reduced to 1 / n with respect to a reference image that has already been encoded;
A movement amount detection unit that inputs a reduced input image and a reference image from the input image reduction unit and the reference image reduction unit, and detects a movement amount for each block;
A movement amount storage unit for storing the movement amount detected by the movement amount detection unit;
A stop block selection unit that compares the movement amount stored in the movement amount storage unit and selects S blocks (S is an integer of 1 or more) from the smaller movement amount;
For the selected S blocks, there is provided a moving image encoding unit that does not execute the motion search and forcibly replaces a motion vector with 0 to execute a moving image encoding process. A characteristic encoding processing apparatus. - 処理対象フレームを複数のブロックに分割して、そのブロック毎に、DCT処理及び量子化処理を実行してDCT係数を生成し、そのDCT係数を使用して動画像符号化処理を行う符号化処理装置であって、
符号化対象となる入力画像に対し、n分の1(nは1以上の整数)に縮小した画像を生成する入力画像縮小部と、
既に符号化処理済みの参照画像に対し、n分の1に縮小した画像を生成する参照画像縮小部と、
前記入力画像縮小部及び前記参照画像縮小部から縮小した入力画像及び参照画像を入力し、ブロック毎に移動量を検出する移動量検出部と、
前記移動量検出部にて検出した移動量を記憶する移動量記憶部と、
前記移動量記憶部に記憶されている移動量を比較し、移動量の少ない方からS個(Sは1以上の整数)のブロックを選択する停止ブロック選択部と、
前記選択されたS個のブロックに対しては、前記DCT処理及び前記量子化処理を実行せず、DCT係数を強制的に0に置き換えて動画像符号化処理を実行する動画像符号化部とを備えたことを特徴とする符号化処理装置。 An encoding process in which a processing target frame is divided into a plurality of blocks, a DCT process and a quantization process are performed for each block to generate a DCT coefficient, and a moving picture encoding process is performed using the DCT coefficient A device,
An input image reduction unit that generates an image reduced to 1 / n (n is an integer of 1 or more) with respect to an input image to be encoded;
A reference image reduction unit that generates an image reduced to 1 / n with respect to a reference image that has already been encoded;
A movement amount detection unit that inputs a reduced input image and a reference image from the input image reduction unit and the reference image reduction unit, and detects a movement amount for each block;
A movement amount storage unit for storing the movement amount detected by the movement amount detection unit;
A stop block selection unit that compares the movement amount stored in the movement amount storage unit and selects S blocks (S is an integer of 1 or more) from the smaller movement amount;
A moving picture coding unit that executes the moving picture coding process by forcibly replacing the DCT coefficient with 0 without performing the DCT process and the quantization process on the selected S blocks; An encoding processing apparatus comprising: - 請求項10又は11に記載の符号化処理装置において、
rフレーム(rは2以上の整数)にr-1回のみ、DCT係数を強制的に0に置き換える動画像符号化処理を実行することを特徴とする符号化処理装置。 The encoding processing device according to claim 10 or 11,
An encoding processing apparatus that executes a moving image encoding process in which a DCT coefficient is forcibly replaced with 0 only r-1 times in r frames (r is an integer of 2 or more). - 請求項12記載の符号化処理装置において、
前フレームの符号量に総ブロック数/Sを掛けて符号量を補正し、その補正した符号量を基にビットレート制御を行う手段を更に備えたことを特徴とする符号化処理装置。 The encoding processing device according to claim 12,
An encoding processing apparatus, further comprising means for correcting the code amount by multiplying the code amount of the previous frame by the total number of blocks / S, and performing bit rate control based on the corrected code amount. - 請求項10又は11に記載の符号化処理装置を有する画像処理回路と、
画像光を画像信号に変換するセンサと、
入射された画像光を前記センサ上に結像させる光学系と、
前記画像信号をデジタルデータに変換して前記画像処理回路に出力する変換器とを備えたことを特徴とする撮像システム。 An image processing circuit comprising the encoding processing device according to claim 10 or 11,
A sensor that converts image light into an image signal;
An optical system that forms an image of incident image light on the sensor;
An imaging system comprising: a converter that converts the image signal into digital data and outputs the digital signal to the image processing circuit. - 請求項10又は11に記載の符号化処理装置を有する画像処理回路と、
入力されたアナログ値の画像信号をデジタルデータに変換して前記画像処理回路に出力する変換器とを備えたことを特徴とする信号処理システム。 An image processing circuit comprising the encoding processing device according to claim 10 or 11,
A signal processing system comprising: a converter that converts an input analog value image signal into digital data and outputs the digital data to the image processing circuit.
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